Word: bench
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently the Abbe Loubiere, priest at the towering Church of the Sacre Coeur, Mpntmartre, Paris, passed the turnstile of the funicular railway which ascends the mont, sat down on a hard bench in one of the funicular cars, beamed with approbation upon three U. S. women who were already seated on the bench...
...chattered gleefully with the exuberance of 17, waved a dutiful goodbye to stout ladies in waiting, was Girl Guide Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau. As she sat, perforce upright, upon a brightly varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...
...Jumping Jack" Jones (Tipperary-born, but M. P. from West Ham since 1918): "I refuse to withdraw it. I now gladly leave this House." (He pointed at the Ministerial bench on which sat the Premier and several of his Cabinet.) "You are all murderers! The, whole gang...
Former Premier Macdonald (rising from the opposition bench, haggard, distraught): "I wish to dissociate myself individually and officially from anything tending to degrade the House of Commons in the eyes of the country. I am speaking for my colleagues as well as myself...
...Supreme Court Justice Harlan, who sat on the U. S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. There was a piquant index to the course of U. S. legal history in the fact that, at the age (later twenties) at which his grandfather was sitting on a Kentucky county bench and running for Congress, the grandson was making a début? from the modern point of view a most auspicious début?by probing for his Government into the nocturnal diversions of innocuous flesh-potters...